Virginia Tech researchers are investigating how overloaded mitochondria in the brain’s memory circuits may spark early ...

By working to understand how new AI systems integrate flexible and incremental learning, researchers gained insights about ...

Researchers suspect energy failures in brain “power plants” may explain why memory pathways collapse so early in Alzheimer’s.

Zhengang Lu and Russell Epstein, from the University of Pennsylvania, led a study to explore how people maintain their sense of direction while navigating naturalistic, virtual reality cities. The ...

Researchers discovered two brain regions that work as a “neural compass,” keeping people oriented in virtual city navigation. These areas tracked direction consistently, hinting at new ways to detect ...

During my dissertation research on combat veterans with post-traumatic stress (PTS), I realized that when discussing traumatic events that lead to PTS, the victim often has a hard time describing the ...

A study of human brain organoids has revealed a new potential target for Alzheimer’s disease treatments 1. As an alternative to working with postmortem brain tissue or mouse models, Peng-Ming Zeng at ...

A team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Leeds has uncovered a way to restore memory in older mice, raising hopes that age-related memory decline in humans might one ...

Neuroinflammation, a prolonged activation of the brain's immune system prompted by infections or other factors, has been ...

A new model of memory — and a little-heralded type of brain cell — might explain why the human brain has such a huge storage capacity, researchers reported in the journal PNAS in May. The study looks ...

Using a corkscrew, writing a letter with a pen or unlocking a door by turning a key are actions that seem simple but actually require a complex orchestration of precise movements. So, how does the ...